Eileen Gu comments on Alysa Liu's historic gold medal

American-born Team China skier Eileen Gu commented connected Team USA fig skater Alysa Liu's historical golden medal successful the women's escaped skate last Thursday astatine the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

After Liu became the archetypal American women's fig skater to triumph an idiosyncratic Olympic medal successful 20 years and archetypal to triumph a golden successful 24 years, she made a celebratory Instagram post. 

"These are for y'all," Liu wrote successful the caption of a photograph holding her golden medal and the U.S. squad gold. 

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Gold medalist Alysa Liu of the United States poses for a photograph during the medal ceremonial for women's azygous skating astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games Feb. 19, 2026, successful Milan, Italy.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Gu commented connected the post, celebrating Liu's victory.

"YESSSSSS," Gu wrote successful the remark section. 

The 2 Chinese American stars person been relentlessly compared and contrasted connected societal media this Olympics. 

Both athletes are the children of immigrants who came to the U.S. from China. But galore fans and critics person been speedy to constituent retired the opposition betwixt Liu's story, a communicative of American loyalty by an immigrant's child, and Gu, who chose to vie for Team China erstwhile she was 15 years aged contempt surviving successful California.

Arthur Liu raised Alysa and her siblings successful Oakland. Yan Gu raised Eileen conscionable crossed the bay successful San Francisco.

Their paths diverged successful 2019.

The Chinese authorities launched a programme to enlistee foreign-born athletes, chiefly with Chinese heritage, to boost competitiveness, notably for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and soccer, according to The China Project.

Gu and Liu were apical recruiting targets.

Gu traded successful her red, achromatic and bluish for reddish and gold. Just months aft competing successful her archetypal Freestyle Ski World Cup for the U.S. successful January 2019, she competed for China for the archetypal clip successful June of that twelvemonth aft requesting a alteration of federation with the International Ski Federation.

Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China attends the grant ceremonial for the freestyle skiing women's freeski large aerial lawsuit astatine the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games successful Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026.  (Hongxiang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The Lius remained loyal to Team USA.

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Arthur was reportedly "not unfastened to persuasion" to having Alysa vie for China, according to The Economist.

Both athletes competed astatine the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu representing China and Liu representing the U.S. 

Gu won 2 golden medals and 1 metallic successful freeskiing and went location to California arsenic a caller planetary household sanction for her success.

Liu finished successful sixth spot successful women's singles fig skating, past went into a impermanent aboriginal retirement, earlier returning to the athletics successful 2024. 

But successful 2026, Liu is the lone 1 with immoderate golden aft helping the U.S. triumph squad golden and her historical idiosyncratic golden connected Thursday. Maybe if Gu represented USA she would person won gold. 

Liu landed each her jumps and smiled during the idiosyncratic last earlier erupting successful a demonstrative solemnisation aft she finished. 

She yelled, "That's what I'm f---ing talking about!' and "Holy s---!" portion celebrating with her team. She finished with a 226.79 full score, a 150.20 escaped skate people and a 76.59 abbreviated programme score. It was her season-best escaped skate score.

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But Gu has lone won 2 silvers truthful acold successful Italy. 

An enactment Tuesday with a newsman went viral aft Gu responded to a question astir her winning 2 metallic medals alternatively of golden truthful acold this Olympics, suggesting the question came from a "ridiculous perspective."

"I’m the astir decorated pistillate freeskier successful history. I deliberation that’s an reply successful and of itself," Gu said erstwhile asked if she saw her 2 medals arsenic "silvers earned" oregon "golds lost."

"How bash I accidental this? Winning a medal astatine the Olympics is simply a life-changing acquisition for each athlete. Doing it 5 times is exponentially harder due to the fact that each medal is arsenic hard for me, but everybody else’s expectations rise, right? 

"The 2 medals mislaid situation, to beryllium rather frank with you, I deliberation is benignant of a ridiculous position to take. I’m showcasing my champion skiing. I’m doing things that rather virtually person ne'er been done before. So, I deliberation that is much than bully enough, but convey you."

Gu volition person 1 past accidental to triumph golden successful the women's halfpipe final, considered her strongest event, Sunday. The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot a time aft it was primitively scheduled owed to aggravated snowfall successful the area.

Gu astir mislaid retired connected immoderate accidental astatine a golden medal aft falling successful the halfpipe qualifier connected Thursday. But she recovered successful her 2nd tally to gain a spot successful the final.

Gu has had to vie nether the unit of immense planetary scrutiny successful effect to her determination to vie for China 7 years ago.

Gu was asked if she feels "like a spot of a punching container for a definite strand of American politics" aft her contention connected Thursday.

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Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China poses for photos aft the grant ceremonial for the freestyle skiing women's freeski large aerial lawsuit astatine the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games successful Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026.  (Wang Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images)

"I do," she said, according to USA Today. "So galore athletes vie for a antithetic country. ... People lone person a occupation with maine doing it due to the fact that they benignant of lump China into this monolithic entity, and they conscionable hatred China. So, it's not truly astir what they deliberation it's about.

"And also, due to the fact that I win. Like, if I wasn't doing well, I deliberation that they astir apt wouldn't attraction arsenic much, and that's OK for me. People are entitled to their opinions."  

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